November 17, 2009

And In The Long Dark

A Love Song for One Not Expected to Return

And in the long dark of waiting,
Jacob sighed and asked Rachel,
Who wasn't there,
Would you miss me, Rachel,
More if I were dead,
And you knew it, than you do
Now when I'm alive and you don't?


November 8, 2009

How Was I Supposed to Know?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF-eHoMF228

And on the day we said goodbye,
How was I to know that I
Would be left with a little ghost

to haunt me


I told you I wasn't sure I could live without you.
You got angry and demanded, "How can you say that?"
But now I'm afraid I may have turned out to be right.

Things I wish I'd done instead
Crowd me on the sidewalks of my mind

And the darkness comes to find me,
Second chances disappear.

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